Building Bone To Last a Lifetime
Already a major public health concern, osteoporosis currently affects over 25 million
Americans. The problem has escalated tremendously in the last decade.
This is reflected in the cost of the disease which rose from $4 billion dollars
annually in 1984 to $14 billion in 1995...$38 million dollars a day. Further,
unless trends reverse, the National Osteoporosis Foundation predicts that by 2015, over 40
million persons will be affected by either osteoporosis or low bone mass (the "at
risk" condition). The concomitant expenditure would be about $57 million per day.
Although aging boomers account for these predictions, it appears that even worse health
problems await the younger generations. The results of eating commercially produced meals,
the replacement of milk by soda and other nutrient-poor beverages, plus generally
substandard eating habits are already revealed in government surveys. Nearly 87 percent
of teenage girls and 64 percent of boys are not getting adequate calcium. This
doesn’t account for even younger children who are ingesting frightening amounts of
sugar and other junk food. Right now, the expectation is that after 50, half of all women
and one in eight men will eventually develop an osteoporosis-related fracture. The
evidence implies that without positive change these percentages will increase.
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Keywords: Androgens, Bone, Boron, Caffeine,
Calcium citrate, Calcium, Copper, Dairy, DHEA, Exercise, Folic acid, Hormones,
Ipriflavone, Magnesium, Manganese, Microcrystalline hydroxyapatite, Milk, Osteoporosis,
Ph, RDAs, Silicon, Strontium, Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Women’s health, Zinc
Topics: Bone Building, Beyond Calcium, The Silent Epidemic, Bad to the
Bone?, Ipriflavone, Hormones: Bone-Building Heroes, Move It or Lose It, The Acid Test,
Just Gotta Have a ‘Nother Cup of Java
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